Skyriot

Traditional costumes worn by Skyriots[n 1]

Skyros +‎ -iot.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskiː.ɹi.ət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈski.ɹi.ət/
• Hyphenation: Skyr‧i‧ot

Skyriot (plural Skyriots)

1. One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.
   • 1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, OCLC 843051156; republished as An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009, →ISBN, page 69:

     Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and buried him with honour in the place he had loved and chosen so many years before.

   • 1965, “Strangers on Skyros”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 297, London: William Blackwood, ISSN 0006-436X, OCLC 557431975, page 312:

     He launched into a long rigmarole of which I understood no word: the Skyriots speak a language all their own, and are unintelligible even to the Psariots, who inhabit the next island. But his tone, and the uninhibited delight of his expression, were eloquence enough.

Skyriot (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Skyros or its inhabitants.
   • 1938 December, Stanley Casson, “The Modern Pottery Trade in the Aegean”, in O[sbert] G[uy] S[tanhope] Crawford and Roland Austin, editors, Antiquity: A Quarterly Review of Archaeology, volume XII, number 48, Gloucester, Gloucestershire: Printed by John Bellows Ltd., OCLC 228771606, page 472:

     Skyriot wares are hardly exported at all, except to Athens for the benefit of the folk-art enthusiasts. I have never met them outside the island except at the little town of Kyme on the east coast of Euboea opposite Skyros. Here it is natural to expect them, for Kyme is the nearest mainland town to the island.

   • 1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, OCLC 843051156; republished in An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009, →ISBN, pages 68–69:

     The [Rupert] Brooke legend has grown its own Skyriot trappings. We were told in Linaria how it had all happened, how before the war the poet was visiting Greece and came to Skyros; how he found the olive grove in this little valley and spent the whole night there in the company of his closest friends, drinking much wine, talking and making merry. He loved the place so much, he said, he wanted to be buried here.

   • 2002, Elizabeth Jane Howard, “Part Three”, in Slipstream: A Memoir, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Macmillan, 2003, →ISBN, page 362:

     I never saw the little Skyriot horses which lived in the mountains all the winter and came down to do farm work and be raced on the sands in the summer. They weren't ponies, I was told, but real horses – the strain being of great antiquity.

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